Tom White is a Ramsgate-based artist focusing predominantly on sound-based practices such as live performance, installation, recordings, composition for dance and film. He is interested in the physicality and phenomena of sound; how it can be felt by the body and experienced in architectural space. Past projects include commissions and appearances for Radiophrenia, Glasgow (CCA); BRAUBLFF (KRAAK & De Player); Whitechapel Gallery, London & Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton. Recent collaborators include Surface Area Dance Theatre, Maya Dunietz, Ben Knight, Renato Grieco and Lia Mazzari.He has performed extensively across the UK and Europe, traveled to North America & Japan and had work published by labels such as Takuroku (Cafe OTO), Glistening Examples, Vitrine, Chocolate Monk, Calling Cards Publishing and South London Gallery. He won the British Composer Award in 2014 (Sonic Art) for Public Address, commissioned by South London Gallery.
In 2016 he founded Apologies in Advance; a platform for artists presenting work in progress performances.
REVIEW OF “HAND IN HAND” BY CHISATO MINAMIMURA / SURFACE AREA DANCE THEATRE
“In the post-performance discussion, I was interested when Tom White, the musician, spoke about their experience, how it had been a challenge to their practice as they had never worked with a Deaf choreographer before. They had to explore ways to make cues work for both hearing and Deaf dancers, mixing live sound throughout the performance to take cues from the dancers. Additionally, they experimented with low-frequency sound, ensuring that within the space, it was not only heard but also felt. This for me exemplifies one of the powers of Disability Arts; and the challenge to artists to learn to create in ways that are new to them to allow accessibility and how this pushes their artistry”,
Review by Lisette Auton, Disability Arts Online.
TOM WHITE | CV | September 2022
Awards
British Composer Award 2014 for Sonic Art (Public Address, 2013, South London Gallery)
Selected Performances
Behind the Face of a Rock, Throwing Stones (Sound score, Surface Area Dance Theatre) Baltic Gallery Gateshead 2022
RADIOPHRENIA FESTIVAL 2022, CCA GLASGOW (with Teresa Cos)
Café OTO, London (Solo) w/ Rubbish Music (Kate Carr & Iain Chambers)
Hand in Hand (Choreographed by Chisato Minamimura), Dance City, Newcastle 2019
FTarri, Tokyo Japan, May 2019
Colour Out of Space Festival, Brighton, April 2019
News of the World Gallery, Deptford (Curated by Calling Cards Publishing) 23rd February 2019
Dronica Festival, Old Church London, October 26th 2018
ELECTROPIXEL, IKLECTIK, London, August 21st 2018
Whitechapel Gallery, Curated by Calling Cards Publishing, 2018
BRAUBLFF, De Player, Rotterdam; Pinkie Bowtie, Antwerp, 2018
Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, November, 2017
Zaratan, Lisbon, April 2017
Cafe OTO with Marc Matter, January 2017
Art's Birthday, E-WERK, Freiburg, January 2017
Is it eating you? IMT Gallery, November 21st 2015
Café Oto, London, July 17th 2015
Spoken Weird, Whitechapel Gallery, September 27th 2014
Psyché Tropes Launch event, Apiary Studios, London, August 29th 2014. Performance with Mark Peter Wright
Poesia Carnosa Festival, Rome, November 7th 2014
Baragan Sound System (Open Music Archive) MK Gallery, June14th 2014
Ende Tymes Festival, Silent Barn, New York, 10th May 2014
Journey to the Centre of the Gut, Guy's Hospital, 14th March 2014 (with Dom James and his Alvine Argonauts)
Performance, ASC Studio (Notes on an Autobiography), London, 25th January 2014
Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone, NTS Radio (Live Set) 29th November 2013
Colour Out Of Space Festival, Brighton, 8-10th November 2013
Live solo, V22, London 9th June: MKG/Agency (Entr’acte & MDTS Antistrophe)
LUX Moving Image & Hackney Film Festival, Cafe Oto, 2012
Exhibitions (Solo and Group)
WARM SPELL, abC Book Fair, Beijing. Curated by Continuous Tone / David Blamey
Emerge Festival, London Canal Museum, September 2019
Hither Green Festival, London 2018
MK Calling, MK Gallery, 2017
Launch Pad: DANCEHALL 11, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, November 13th - 22nd 2015
I'M Ten, IMT Gallery, London, September 4th - 2nd October 2015
Heavy Feet, Workshop & Performance, Arnolfini Bristol, August 8th 2015
South London Gallery, We Are Us And You Are You: Live Listening Party, July 6th 2014
Journey to the Centre of the Gut, Guy's Hospital, 14th March 2014 (with Dom James and his Alvine Argonauts)
Double Back, Screening, Store Association London, 5th March 2014
At the moment of being heard, South London Gallery, London, 28th June - 20th July 2013
MK Calling, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2013
Happening! Power Lunches, London May 24th 2013
UNPlaced, Rochford Essex, (with Amy Frampton) Secret Location, 2013
Spill Festival National Platform, Ipswich Art School Gallery, November 2012
Sublimation, Curated by SoundFjord Oboro, Montreal
Curated Projects
Anton Bruhin Spills The Beans, Café OTO, London 2018 (With Marc Matter)
Apologies in Advance, Work in Progress events series, 2016 - Ongoing
V22, London 9th June: MKG/Agency (Entr’acte & MDTS Antistrophe)
LUX Moving Image & Hackney Film Festival, Cafe Oto, 2012
Education/Teaching
Kingston University, Creative Sound Design, Visiting Lecture, 2018
Royal College of Art, British Earways, 2018 - ongoing
Royal College of Art, Learning to Listen (Bang and Olufsen) 2016
Shrishti, Bangalore India - Makeshift Music, 2013
ReCreative Film School, South London Gallery, 2013
Play Local, South London Gallery, 2013
National Portrait Gallery, 2013
MK Gallery / MK arts for Health, 2012
Web-based projects
What Does The Internet Sound Like? Radio Event, Stress FM & Echoes, 30th November - 1st December 2013
Quiet Place, Curated by David Blamey, Electric Spring Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, 2013
128kbps Objects Or-bits Online Radio Exhibition ('Bats & Ping Pong: Trio') 2012
Publications/Recordings
ACCIDENTAL STEREO AT THE PENINSULA with Renato Grieco
(Cassette) (Apologies Imprint 2021)
Lettura Di Un’ Onda with Lia Mazzari (Takuroku UK) 2020
Side Down Cassette (Anathema Archive USA) 2020
Run Amok CD/DL Glistening Examples (USA)
Summer Crash (CD with Maya Dunietz - Singing Knives Records, 2017)
Automated Evangelism, (Cassette, Vitrine, 2016)
Commemoratives, (Cassette, Tutore Burlato, 2016)
Art-Speak: A Glossary, Contribution to Publication by South London Gallery / REcreative
Reconstruction (Alien Passengers, 2014)
Routine Happenings - Extended Variations (Chocolate Monk, 2013)
Corrugated (Cassette, Imminent Frequencies, 2013)
Tape Works (C40 Cassette, My Dance The Skull, 2013)
Exposures 42 & 48 (C20 Cassette, My Dance The Skull, 2012)
Voice Studies (C20 Cassette, My Dance The Skull, 2011)
False Ponds (C20 Cassette, My Dance The Skull 2010)
In Poor Visibility (CD, Hibernate, 2010)
A Well Known Phrase (CD, Under The Spire, 2009)
Sight See (CD, Smallfish, 2009)